Police arrest woman with decomposing corpse

ASABA—Police in Delta State have arrested a woman, who allegedly killed a commercial motorcyclist and kept his decomposing corpse in her room for nine days.

The State Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO, Celestina Kalu, who disclosed this in Asaba, yesterday, said a group of vigilante men led by Mr. Udoro Odiri, reported that the group received an information that a corpse was in one Beatrice Idoro’s apartment at 8, Irifere Eku.

She said the vigilante team members had said the deceased was an Okada man simply known as Oghenerho.

Kalu said the deceased was killed April 5, 2016, allegedly by the said Beatrice and the corpse kept in her inner room before it was discovered.